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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 11th day of Shevat, 5728, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 13:1747:16. Prophetical portion, Judges 4:4-5:31.
Hamisha Asar b'Shevat occurs on Wednesday, Feb. 14
Candle lighting, Friday, Feb. 9, 5:38 p.m.
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VOL. LII. No. 21
February 9, 1968
Jordanian Obstacles to the Peaceful Roads
There is such an evident attempt on the
part of the Jordanian authorities to belittle
Israel's efforts to create amicable relations
between Israelis and Arabs that the-stubborn
desire to postpone peace and to prevent direct
negotiations between the contending forces
in the Middle East becomes more evident
as time progresses.
While an "international bridge" has been
created by Israel, making it possible for Arab
merchants to peddle their goods unmolested
between Israel and the Arab states, the
Jordanian Foreign Ministry saw fit to spread
the word that commercial exchanges are "un-
official" and that they stem from the ability
of Jordanian drivers to "bribe" Israeli guards
at Jordan River crossings. So — as a deter-
rent to peace we now have a new charge
leveled at Israel: bribery!
It is no wonder that General Moshe Dayan
saw fit to state last week that he'd rather
make peace with Egypt than with Jordan!
The diminutive king, whose very existence
is the result of Israeli strength, which pre-
vented Nasser from taking over his kingdom,
is sanctimonious when he misleads Ameri-
can politicians but seems determined to play
the role of a mud-slinger and trouble-maker
when it comes to amicability with his neigh-
bor who triumphed over his armies.
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What are the facts relating to the com-
mercial bridge that is being aided and en-
couraged by Israel?
The full account of an honorable exchange
is given in a cabled report to the New York
Times from Jericho by James Feron. It is
such a completely revealing story of a con-
queror's treatment of the vanquished with
such utter compassion and cooperation that
it is worth quoting in full. Feron cabled:
JERICHO, Israeli-Occupied Jordan, Jan. 14—
From sunup to sundown, the planks of the new
Allenby Bridge rumble under the steady stream
of passenger and commercial traffic. It is a trade
between nations still at war, and the trade is in-
creasing.
The crossing point is a sturdy bridge erected
a few months ago by the Jordanians to replace
the original Allenby Bridge 100 yards down-
stream wrecked by the Israelis in the Six-Day
War last June.
The refugees who left Israeli-held territory
soon after the war have been replaced by an
organized exchange of people and goods across
the new structure.
An Israeli colonel leaned against the bridge
railing today and watched a truck loaded with
citrus fruit cross from the Israeli-controlled West
Bank to the Jordanian East Bank.
The colonel nodded at the Arab driver, who
nodded back. The driver's papers had been check-
ed in a makeshift customs area in a grove of
trees on the Israeli side. Once across, he stopped
to remove the Israeli license plates and replace
them with Jordanian tags.
Most Will Return
"We have about 100 or 150 trucks crossing
every day," the colonel said. "There must be
another 500 or 600 persons walking across, both
ways, he added. Taxis on either side carry them
away, in opposite directions.
"Most of the people crossing will be return-
ing," the colonel said. "They will be staying with
relatives in the West Bank. If they are coming
this way, or in Amman if they are going the other
way, they will be conducting business, but they
won't stay," he said.
Soon, the truckers, too, will be carrying pro-
duce in both directions. Israeli officials decided
this week, for the first time since the war, to
permit West Bank merchants to import goods from
Jordan.
The Allenby Bridge, thus, has become a more
active and more diversified crossing point than
the Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem had ever been
in the nearly 20 years it served as the sole con-
nection between Jordan and Israel.
The present exchange serves both sides well.
Israel is interested in maintaining a trouble-free
occupation without jeopardy to any arrangements
that might emerge from peace talks.
Jordan has found it politically and economi-
cally worthwhile to maintain contact with its West
Bank population.
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With obstructions, Jordan now becomes
a major obstacle to peace and any "leaks"
to the contrary notwithstanding — whether
they come from Washington, London or
Cairo — should not be permitted to mislead
Judaism as defined by Martin Buber, the eminent philosopher's
anyone into believing that Hussein is ready
theological discussions, the basis on which the noted teacher's ideas
or willing to make peace with Israel.
have become accepted as authoritative and noteworthy by all faiths, are
Buber's 'On Judaism' Addresses
Republished in SchockenVolume
As a matter of fact, eight El Fatah groups
have just organized to conduct guerrilla war-
fare against Israel within the Jewish State's
borders and the spokesman for the com-
bined terrorist force is quoted as saying
that the aim is "liquidation of the Zionist
state" and rejection of any attempts for a
peaceful settlement of the issue. And while
this was being uttered, the Jordanian King
Hussein and Lebanon's President Charles
Helou, while visiting together in a refugee
camp in Jordan, were listening to demands
for "revenge" and weapons to fight Israel.
This is a type of battle cry that is resorted
to in an effort to pull the shades over a vision
of truth, but the incitement to war neverthe-
less exists.
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There is something very ludicrous about
Hussein's role in the urgent need for a
speedy peace. Less than a month ago he
was reported to have met with King Faisal
in Saudi Arabia and then went on to
meet again with Nasser—ostensibly to
seek means for direct Israel-Jordan con-
ferences. However, according to News-
week, "after the meeting Jordan's Premier
Bahjat Talhouni pointedly announced that
never 'under any circumstances' would his
country undertake bilateral negotiations
with Israel. Nasser, apparently, had
turned thumbs down."
incorporated in a collection of his addresses
published by Schocken under the title .on
Judaism." Edited by Prof. Nahum N. Glat-
zer, this volume is replete with Buber'a
ideas on Jewish religiosity, youth and re-
ligion, the spirit of Judaism, "The Dialogue
Between Heaven and Earth."
The first eight of the essays in this volume
are addresses he delivered from 1909 to
1918; the last four he delivered from 1939
to 1951. Thus, almost in its entirety, this
is a collection of his early thinking. In
these lectures he envisions Jewry as a eon-
tinuing historical element. He distinguishes
religiosity from religion. By the term "God"
Dr. Buber
he does not mean a philosophical or moral idea, "nor anything at all
created by, or developed within, man." He explains his view:
"I do mean God, whom man, however, possesses only in ideas
and images; but these ideas and images are not the work of tree
creation; they are products of divine-human encounters, of man's
attempts to grasp the inexplicable as and when it happens to him.
They are the traces of the mystery...."
Speaking of "Judaism and the Jews," Prof. Buber emphasizes
that "self-affirmation of the Jew has its tragic aspects as well as its
grandeur," and that "to live as a Jew means to absorb this tragic aspect
as well as the grandeur of self-affirmation." •
The Jewish question is transformed into "a human question," Dr.
Buber stated in the essay "Judaism and Mankind," emphasizing a striv-
ing for unity "that makes Judaism a phenomenon of mankind."
Tendencies leading to The advancement of prophetic Judaism are
enumerated in his plea for the "Renewal of Judaism," the realization
of which in personal lives he listed as depending upon: "the tendency
toward unity, by moulding our soul into a single entity, in order to
enable it to conceive unity; the tendency toward the deed, by filling
the tendency toward the future ..4
our soul with unconditionality . .
to enable it to serve the future.'"
"The Spirit of the Orient and the Future" point to the 'time-
less passageway between Orient and Occident" and the deepening of
Palestine's importance for the world, with Jerusalem "as the gateway
of the nations .. ."
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Such is the condition dominating the
Arab world today. There are many Arabs
who crave for peace. There is the urgently
Discussing "Jewish Religiosity" he points out that "ever since the de-
struction of the Temple, tradition has been at the center of Judaism's relig101111
felt need to provide opportunities for prog-
life." He declared in that lecture, delivered half a century ago: "The Mine
of men is as yet only a projected opus that is waiting for us, a calla!
ress in the Arab world, akin to the provisions munity
we must put in order, a Diaspora we must gather in, a conflict to which
which have assured commercial freedom must
bring reconciliation. But this we can accomplish only if, in the n
context
of a life shared with others, every one of us, each in his own Ida016
across warring borders. But the powers in will perform
the just, the unifying, the in-forming deed.
"For God does not want to be believed „ in, to be debated and defended bV
Cairo will not permit it, and there are many
but simply to be realized through us.
indications that Amman is far from sincere as, Myths
in Judaism, Hasidic lore and traditions, are thorough/y
in its aims.
evaluated. He places importance on "the special character of Jude.
ism”
as
residing
"in neither the religious nor the ethical realm but
Will the mission of the Swedish diplo- in the unity of both
realms." He states: "Their unity, not their Jana
mat, Gunnar Jarring, who holds a special tion of the two realms are but two aspects of the same basic state. To
assignment from the United Nations to seek do the good deed is to fill the world with God; to serve God in truth
means for an end to the Arab-Israel war and is to draw Hine intoLife. In genuine Judaism ethics and faith are no
for a lasting peace, meet with a measure of separate spheres: its ideal, holiness, is true community with God and
success? Dr. Jarring already has met num- true community with human beings, both in one. The distorted images
erous times with Israeli and Arab leaders. of a divided state of mind—holiness-through-works and holiness-hp
alien to it."
His mission is a serious one. He could ef- grace—are
Among his strongest appeals were for youth to build an inner religious We,
fect peace if given an opportunity to bring thus overcoming "the loneliness of its intellectualism."
Jews as "the keepers of
roots" are among his major concerns as he probes the process of Jewish
both contending forces together, but this is the
spirituality.
the obstacle that prevents solution.
There is deep realism as well as spirituality In Dr. Hubert
analysis of the spiritual and the earthly. In the concluding essay In
Anyone, therefore, who envisions an early this
volume, his address on "Dialogue
Heaven and Earth,"
peace is entertaining a dream the realization delivered after the Holocaust, he even Between
posed the question of man's
of which remains remote.
challenge to God vis-avis Auschwitz and other trials and tribulations,
and he asserted: "We donot put up with earthly being; we struggle for
It is far better that the facts should be its
redemption, and struggling we appeal to the help of our Lord, wbo
known so that there may be proper shelter is again
and still a hiding one. In such a state we await His voice,
and full preparation for whatever' may hap- whether it comes out of the storm or out of a stillness
that follows
pen in the threatening atmosphere for Israel. it. Though His coming appearance resemble no earlier one, we atom
At least there will be no delusions regarding recognize again our cruel and merciful Lord."
anything approaching peace from the kingly
The great teachings inherent in Buberism are offered again In these
republished essays which serve anew as guides to spirituality.
palace in Amman.
NEW DELHI—A mass walkout
was staged at the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Develop-
ment (UNCTAD) here Wednes-
day when Zeev Sharef, Israel's
minister of commerce and indus-
try and head of the Israeli delega-
tion, mounted the rostrum to make
his initial address before the in-
ternational gathering. Leaving the
chamber were the entire Arab,
Communist and African blocs
along with Pakistan. Afghanistan
and some members of the Indian
delegation.
The demonstration, with its
clearly political motive, injected
an unsavory note into what all of
the delegates agree, at least offi-
cially, is a nonpolitical parley.
UNCTAD was convened to devise
global strategy toward helping
underdeveloped nations advance
in the areas of trade and com-
merce. The Arab delegates and
those of the USSR had earlier,
carefully refrained from mention-
ing the Middle East or Vietnam—
the two global hot spots—in their
speeches. Two Communist bloc na-
tions did, however. The Czech
delegate referred to Vietnam and
the "recent aggression against
some Arab countries."
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Tuesday, the Bulgarian min-
ister for foreign trade, Ivan
Boudinov, charged that "Ameri-
can aggression" in Vietnam and
Israel's refusal to withdraw
from its "illegal occupation" of
Arab territory were obstacles to
the aims of the conference. The
Bulgarian statement was sharply
rebuked by Israel's ambassador
Michael Comay, who is floor
chairman of the Israeli delega-
tion, for making political refer-
ences at a nonpolitical confer-
ence.
This and India's pressure on
the Arabs not to embitter the pro-
ceedings, apparently caused the
restraint shown later on by sneak-
ers for Iraq, the United Arab
Republic and the USSR.
Sharef, in his address, called for
liberal measures to promote trade
with nations trying to develop
their industry and commerce, sup-
ported by a flow of aid. The
alternative, he warned, would be
the development of several closed
and unequal blocs.
`2 Snowfalls a Decade"
Proves False Forecast
ill Snowy Jerusalem
Headquarters for Training El Fatah
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Jewish
school in Damascus, confiscated by
Syrian authorities, is serving as
headquarters and recruiting center
for the El Fatah terriorist organi-
zation which trains saboteurs for
incursions into Israel.
This was disclosed to an Israeli
military tribunal in Jenin Monday ,
by a captured 19-year-old El Fatah
member, Mouhamed Achmed
Sallah, who was sentenced to 10
years' imprisonment for terrorist
activities.
The school, located in the middle
of Damascus' Jewish quarter, was
operated by the Alliance Israelite
Universelle, a French-based organ-
ization that maintains a network of
Jewish schools in Arab and other
lands.
Young Sallah, a native of Jenin
on the West Bank, told the court
that he fled to Amman during
the Six-Day War where he joined
a cousin who was about to be
drafted into the Arab--Legion.
To avoid the draft, he and his
cousin fled to Syria where they
both joined El Fatah. They were
recruited at the Alliance school
building.
A military tribunal in Lydda
opened the trial Monday of eight
members of the El Fatah who were
implicated in the attempted bomb-
ing of the crowded Zion cinema in
downtown Jerusalem last Oct. 9.
The tribunal revealed last Friday
the true name of th self-proclaimed
"leader" of the El Fatah gang,
known hitherto as "Dr. Nur." He
is Mahmoud Assad and is neither
a leader nor an important member
of the gang, although the informa-
tion he gave Israeli security
authorities after his arrest con-
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Snow fell
again last week in Jerusalem—
for the second time in two weeks
—as the city girded for a possible
repeat of the havoc caused by the
earlier storm.
When the Knesset (parliament)
prudently cut its session short
Jan. 31 so that members could get
home before roads became im-
passable and public transport sus-
pended—as it was three weeks
ago—several morning newspapers
thought this too timid and roundly
criticized the Knesset presidium
in editorials.
But Jerusalemites, who are sup
posed to experience only two snow Go!da Meir Accepts
falls a decade according to weather
bureau statistics, were taking no Post in Labor Party
chances. Emergency services were
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Mrs. Golda
organized by the municipality. and Meir exercised her womanly pre-
snow clearing equipment was rogative and changed her mind—
primed and ready. The only mis- she agreed to accept the post of
haps reported initially were frozen secretary-general of Israel's new
fuel in central heating pipelines united labor party, an amalgam
and several collisions as auto- of Mapai and the former dissident
mobiles skidded on the snow- Rafi and Ahdut Avoda factions.
slicked streets.
Previously she had refused the
job.
Mrs. Meir. who had been secre-
tary-general of Mapai, relinquish-
ed that post when the merger,
which she strongly opposed, was
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A military effected. However, Prime Minister
court in the Tulkarem-Samaria Eshkol and others in the party
district pronounced a 30-year sen- urged her to keep the position in
tence on an Arab who was convict. the new labor party. Eshkol
ed of acting as a "supply officer" visited Mrs. Meir at her home yes-
of El Fatah terrorist gangs active terday and apparently his powers
in the district. According to the of persuasion succeeded. The new
evidence, the prisoner whose party's secretariat will hold its
name was not given, brought food first meeting next week.
to terrorist holed up in caves. Un-
der military law this is a capital
offense. But the court exercised
leniency because the prisoner gave
evidence that led to the arrest and
conviction of a large number of
El Fatah members.
tributed to the prompt round-up of
the terrorists, a military spokes-
man said.
It also saved him from a life
sentence. He was given 30 years'
imprisonment and thanked his
Israeli defense counsel after the
trial although he lamented, "I shall
be an old man when I come out."
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